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realitycheck

"Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website. Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company."

We all knew that it had to be something like this, simply unbelievable......

realitycheck

"Health-care premiums in Wisconsin will almost double under Obamacare, compared with their current rates, according to a report from the MacIver Institute. The state’s free-market think tank figured the average premiums of the insurance plans the Obamacare exchange offers for several categories of Wisconsinites: 27-year-olds, 50-year-olds, and a family of four from data found on a federal database. The institute then compared those rates with the average premiums on the private market, using figures from eHealthInsurance****."

flyonthewall

Yesterday rep Issa introduced HR3319 tp create a fed exchange to purchase health insurance. It is not yet posted Thomas(dot)gov but will be in a few days. The exchange would be similar to the FEBHP used by fed employees including congress.

realitycheck

"According to a CBS investigation the recent "explosion" of Medicaid enrollment could "threaten the entire structure of Obamacare." “According to a CBS investigation, in many of the 15 states that have their own health insurance exchanges, more people are enrolling in Medicaid than are actually buying private health insurance,” CBS News reporter Jan Crawford revealed. "There is concern that if that trend continues, there will not be as many healthy people buying insurance for this system to work," she continued."

realitycheck

Elderly New Yorkers are in a panic after getting notices that insurance companies are booting their doctors from the Medicare Advantage program as a result of the shifting medical landscape under ObamaCare. New York State Medical Society President Sam Unterricht is demanding a congressional probe after learning that one health carrier alone, UnitedHealthcare, is terminating contracts with up to 2,100 doctors serving 8,000 Medicare Advantage patients in the New York metro region."

realitycheck

"CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is being forced to cancel plans that currently cover 76,000 individuals in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., due to changes made by President Obama's health care law. "

Bullhead

Jester, you say, "I've always noticed a trend in which Dems at least announce to your face when they are about to screw you over, whereas, teapubs never even acknowledge anything is happening."

I would suggest that you are not very good at "noticing" then...

...unless you consider this lie by Obama as an attempt to announce to the American public's face that they were about to get screwed back in 2009:

"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what."

As my "Progressive" comrades, like MountainTerp, like to say: I vote Democratic because I hate the Truth, the Constitution and any individual liberty!

Jester01

I've always noticed a trend in which Dems at least announce to your face when they are about to screw you over, whereas, teapubs never even acknowledge anything is happening when it is blatantly obvious. Then they still continue to play dumb afterwards. Hey mountainterp...I need another "I vote Republican because" comment please!

BeepBeep

The difference between Part D Medicare and ACA is the Repubs didn't even try to fund Part D and the Dems have provided funding for ACA. Every notice the stats that show when there is a DEM in the WH deficits go down and when there is a Repub in the WH deficits don't matter and thus go up.

BTW, is this the kind of crony-capitalism that you want to preserve with your "Progressive" agenda of Medicare Part D and Obamacare?

"Former Congressman Billy Tauzin, R-La., who steered the bill through the House, retired soon after and took a $2 million a year job as president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the main industry lobbying group...A total of 14 congressional aides quit their jobs to work for the drug and medical lobbies immediately after the bill's passage."

flyonthewall

I see IC hasn't checked out part d rollout. How would you like to have needed meds withheld and possibly causing more health problems or worse? Where was all the whining about the mandate and penalties and rollout and unfunded liabilities associated with part d?

interstatecommuter38

Also it's disheartening when there is automatic cuts do to the sequester and the administration tries to get those for mentioned cuts turned back into spending. Then multiply that by the projection of the debt to be 22trillion by February w 14th. Also add that somes solution is to raise taxes further. Then taxes do feel more like confiscation then being a part of a civilized society.

Bullhead

Have you ever tried not paying them? What happens if you refuse? Does a force confiscate them anyway?

Why don't we just set up a voluntary contribution fund toward "civil government" if your assertion is true?

Now, you may argue that it is a necessary evil in order to maintain some Order and Justice. But it still uses bully-force confiscation and ought to be limited as much as possible.

Furthermore, we all know that the U.S. federal government has moved WAY past that standard and toward "Progressive" manipulation to achieve "societal goals" as established usually by a small ruling class.

BTW, you can have "civilized society" without taxation and/or mandated "beneficent" government goals. Restaurants can say "No shirt. No shoes. No service."

interstatecommuter38

Ponder this thought of the day. Liberals dont think their constituents can get voter id because of cost and cry foul about keeping them from voting. On the other hand liberals want the same people who cant get a voter id to get on the phone or the Internet to get insurance or face a monetary penalty.

flyonthewall

To all the ACA rollout complainers do all of us a favor and check out all the problems when medicare part d went live. Seniors denied needed meds and computer glitches abounded. Took months to straighten out.

Einsteinwasaliberal

That's odd because I don't remember having tax money confiscated from my family in order to pay for ANY those things--Bull. Bull, Taxes are not confiscated. "They are the price we pay to live in a civilized society" O.W. Holmes